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The Myokyoji Reioden Front Hall at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a long, narrow 1886 entry hall under a curving cypress-bark gable, with a stone floor and fine carving.
The Myokyoji Reioden Worship Hall at Saijo Inari in Okayama is an open-sided cypress-bark hall of 1886, three bays square, by the Nagoya carpenter Aoyama Choshichi.
The Myokyoji Rokusha Tennosha Ichitomi Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is an 1895 one-bay shrine at the north end of a row of six, quiet in design.
The Myokyoji Rokusha Tennosha Shiraito Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is an 1895 shrine, fourth in a row of six, identical in detail to two others.
The Myokyoji Rokusha Tennosha Daigenki Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a mid-Meiji shrine, third in a row of six, with a simpler gable and rafters.
The Myokyoji Rokusha Tennosha Fukusaki Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a mid-Meiji shrine at the south end of a row of six, like the Daigenki shrine.
The Myokyoji Rokusha Tennosha Fukuyoshi Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a mid-Meiji shrine, fifth in a row of six, carved with young-leaf patterns.
The Myokyoji Rokusha Tennosha Yomori Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is an 1895 shrine, second in a row of six, its veranda carried on brackets.
Salt money built this 1891 house in Kojima. Six columns carry an open upper verandah in colonial style, a rare survival among Okayama's Meiji Western buildings.
The smallest of six buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this household store links to the parlor and is floored in tatami above. Registered 2024.
An early-Meiji dozo at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, plastered to the eaves and pairing an open rice store with a household strongroom. Registered 2024.
On the Oda River's west bank in Ibara, Okayama, the 1882 shop and main house of Yamanari Sake Brewery shows a long plastered Meiji frontage. Registered in 2024.
The largest of six listed buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this brewing hall is built around a sealed malt room. Registered in 2024.
The larger of two brewing halls at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this early-Meiji storehouse still fills its tanks each winter. Registered in 2024.
A torii of fired Bizen stoneware at the entrance of Yuga Shrine, Kurashiki, dated by inscription to 1894 and about 4.7m tall. Registered 2024; under repair in 2026.
The stone steps and walls of Ryujoin in Tamano, Okayama, from the end of the Edo period (1830–1867), bound the hillside temple grounds below its bell tower gate.